Shane Goodyear’s Reviews > The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity > Status Update

Ruskin clearly feared that secularisation was really a capitalist form of idolatry a christening of heavenly ecstasy and a cold baptismal font of money a enchantment conducted under the gilded and highly auspices of capital

However secular their origins in Property relations, commodity fetishism and the larger idolatry of the markets are capitalist surrogates for enchantment

Four from being an agent of disenchantment capitalism has been a regime of enchantment, a repression displacement and longing for divinity